Ben-Hur
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Boomhower, p. 110. Morrow, p. 15. Ben-Hur, an adventure story of revenge and redemption, is told from the perspective of a Jewish nobleman named Judah Ben-Hur.
Boomhower, p. 90, and Morrow, p. 13. Wallace wrote the manuscript for Ben-Hur, his second and best-known novel, during his spare time at Crawfordsville, and completed it in Santa Fe, while serving as the territorial governor of New Mexico.
After Moses and Ben-Hur, Heston became more identified with Biblical epics than any other actor.
Eliot 2006, p. 332. Stewart's nomination was one of seven for the film ( Charlton Heston was the winner with Ben-Hur), and saw his transition into the final decades of his career.
Epics like Ben-Hur or El Cid simply couldn't be made today, in part because popular culture has changed as much as political fashion.
Hanks and Hodges 2003, p. 106. Cooper also found work in a variety of non-Western films, appearing, for example, as a masked Cossack in The Eagle (1925), as a Roman guard in Ben-Hur (1925), and as a flood survivor in The Johnstown Flood (1926).